President Obama's Inaugural Address

[The Original Nex]

Technically it wasn't Lincoln's Bible, but it is the Bible Lincoln was sworn in on in 1865 because the family book was delayed in arrival. History, naturally, remembers it as the Lincoln Bible.

IIRC it belonged to Chief Justice Taney, the author of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which gives the book a great coating of irony.

I would have been very hard for Taney to author Plessy v. Ferguson, as he died 28 years before Plessy even boarded the railroad car. He was the source of the court's opinion in the Dred Scott case, though.

Ah my mistake. I knew it was one of the 19th Century race decisions.

[Ender]

Jay-Z's post inauguration performance: 99 problems, but a Bush ain't one

Ownage.